As a Liverpool fan, I'm an eternal optimist because of what we did in Istanbul in 2005.

- Katarina Johnson-Thompson

My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded.

- Rebecca Ferguson

I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another's houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany.

- Pete Best

We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

- Pete Best

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

- Peter Shaffer

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

- Paul McCartney

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

- Mike Myers

I'm not going to another club to hurt Liverpool.

- Luis Suarez

At clubs like Liverpool, great players come and go.

- Luis Suarez

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

- Katharine Lee Bates

Sometimes I have to pinch myself to think: have I really come this far? Because it is quite different, where I find myself today, from where I started off, in the streets of Waterloo, in the suburbs of Liverpool - that's for sure.

- Cherie Blair

Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.

- Jamie Redknapp

It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.

- Ian Rush

I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.

- Ian Rush

In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

- Iain Duncan Smith

My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

- Fernando Torres

Liverpool will always be my home.

- David Morrissey

I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool.

- Charlie Adam

Kenny Dalglish was the greatest to play for Liverpool and Scotland, so for someone like that to sign me was an honour.

- Charlie Adam

I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.

- Clive Owen